At the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, we focus on three principles to guide our work to enhance our impact: We set ambitious, even audacious, stretch goals; we work to build bridges, to bring people and communities together; and we never forget those less fortunate than we are, knowing as we…
The Business of Building Community: The Leadership Group’s new blog series is dedicated to the community and how we, and our member companies, are serving it for the better. More than one million Californians do not have access to clean water for bathing, drinking, and other basic needs. Instead, our…
Invest in Change My personal motto is "invest in the change you want to see in the world." To be frank, it sprouted out of my frustration with the endless griping I found myself surrounded by back in 2009, when I was president of a global network for women and…
When Faced With Times Like These, Turn to Impact Investing At present, in a time when truth and transparency seem ever elusive, when divisiveness appears a way of life, and social and environmental threats loom large, a bright spot has emerged. That bright spot - Impact Investing - curates both…
Inclusion, Innovation, Infrastructure, Imagination For generations, America's leadership, strength and entrepreneurial spirit have been the envy of the world. Through investments in our children and their education, in cutting-edge infrastructure, and in life-saving science and transformational technology, we built an economy, and a middle class, that were second to none.…
The Future Workforce in the World of Al The explosion of data in recent years has raised a number of ethical issues, from personal privacy to the integrity of our information architecture. The continued advancements in machine learning (and eventually artificial intelligence), fueled by this wealth of data, raises even…
Please Note: The newly released Silicon Valley Leadership Group 2020 Candidate Questionnaire has been updated to correct a human error related to the District 10 race questions and answers. Questions and answers were duplicated in error for one candidate and we have corrected the information to reflect the answers given…
Mobility Trends Improving the Quality of Life for All Improving the quality of life and reducing the cost of living is an oft missed side effect of the pursuit of autonomous drive, clean inexpensive energy, and the electrification of transportation. These technology arcs are evolving roughly in parallel and their…
Reciprocity as My Guide Co-founding and helping to build Landed has brought into focus just how much I'm guided by a commitment to reciprocity: mutually corresponding exchanges of give and take. This penchant for mutual exchange is the basis for how I figure out how to do right by our…
As the tech center of the world for decades, Silicon Valley is synonymous with innovation. And innovation is what is needed to address our deepening housing crisis. Not just innovation in technology, but innovation in thinking, in approaching the problem from a different mindset. We’ve begun to see some Silicon…